Two of Bernero's campaign staffers make big donations to Dunbar, Yorko days after getting paid big for work on Bernero’s campaign

Thursday, Oct. 24 — On a Friday in June, two of Mayor Virg Bernero’s campaign staffers were paid significantly more as contract workers than they had been previously for helping run his reelection. By Tuesday the following week, campaign manager Christopher Breznau and staffer Elizabeth Hart donated $1,000 each and $500 each to the reelection campaigns of City Council members Kathie Dunbar and Jessica Yorko, respectively, county campaign finance records show.

Is this the year Bernero gets his wish of breaking up Carol Wood and Brian Jeffries?

Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and City Councilman Brian Jeffries live around the corner from each other, but their personalities are light years apart. In turn, those differences have caused a Grand Canyonsized political gap between the Mayor’s Office on the ninth floor of City Hall and Jeffries’ part-time Council office on the 10th floor.

Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope running unopposed for second term in a row — he must be doing something right

Since being elected Lansing’s city clerk in 2005, Chris Swope has successfully lobbied to cut the number of required annual City Council meetings in half, consolidated voting precincts to save money and transitioned to a paperless form of getting Council information out to interested residents.

Charlotte income tax proposal is playing factor in mayoral race

Charlotte voters will decide if the Eaton County seat will become the 23rd Michigan city to levy a local income tax. The proposal, debated for nearly a year by City Council, would raise an estimated $1.1 million to $1.5 million annually if levied at the maximum 1 percent on residents and .5 percent on non-residents.

Two four-year, one partial two-year term up for grabs on East Lansing City Council

The five-member East Lansing City Council will get at least two new members starting next year.
Two seats are up for four-year terms.
Another seat is up to complete the remaining two years of the term of Councilman Don Powers, who resigned.